Parshat Shavua

Even as Avraham was tending to Sara’s funeral, Hashem was preparing a proper daughter-in-law who would take the reins & carry Am Yisrael forward into the future

You are waiting patiently in the checkout line at “The Kosher Grocer,” together with three other women -- the Rebbitzen of your shul, the widowed Rebbitzen of a famous Rosh Yeshiva, and Mrs. Cohen, who is the wife of a kohen at your shul. Do you have a mitzvah or a requirement to step aside and allow either of the Rebbitzens or the kohen’s wife to go first?

Why did the ever-independet Avraham send his slave to do the important job of finding a bride for Yithchak? Rabbi Baruch Finkelstein teaches us about the beauty and holiness of the Jewish family through the weekly Parsha.